Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hundred Dollar Valentine
Lowest review score: 10 Milk Cow Blues
Score distribution:
10507 music reviews
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    These bedroom demo-sounding efforts are primitive. {Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maryland pop-punks are shamelessly commercial and ruthlessly effective. [Dec. 2010, p. 96]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brassbound is a far better played, better written and lyrically grown-up record than its brash, Brit-pop-punk predecessor. [Jul 2005, p.102]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While beats like 'Shine All Day's' electronic bounce feel odd at first, they gradually begin to make sense, while KRS-One's 'What If?' and the Supernatural-helmed 'Tribute To The Breakdancer' will keep the most ardent old-schoooler happy. [Apr 2009, p.108]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lange hasn't changed Nickelback wholesale: mostly, they still rock like a post-grunge Metallica. [Jan 2008, p.104]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism and elegant melody. [Feb 2005, p.98]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Should please any Stone Roses fan. [Mar 2004, p.108]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As ever with Borrell, it's never less than weirdly, grippingly fascinating. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Given the right mood and lighting, it is almost magical; in stark sunshine, less so. [Jun 2011, p.100]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Korn] sound both out of focus and curiously out of date. [Feb 2004, p.95]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's no high concept, just 12 pop songs that sound as if the pair decided to down tools the moment working ion them felt like work. [May 2018, p.90]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    More mopey ballads and ad-ready pop songs. [Dec 2013, p.92]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Heyes has polished the band into tedium, with live guitars and drums drowned out by high sheen studio gloss and painfully dated loops. [Sep 2004, p.104]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Her syrupy soul often fails to mesh with B.I.G.'s taut flows. [Jul 2017, p.96]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They fare less well when they get ambitious. [Jul 2005, p.112]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [An] unexpected and trenchantly singular statement. [Jul 2015, p.86]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Any number of Zutons and Corals have already trod this path, and to keep up Kane will have to try harder than insering words like "insane" and "psychotic" into music that sounds as if it was made by James Shelley's naive young cousins. [July 2008, p.101]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's little attempt to get under the skin of these songs, or really bend them into new shapes. [Oct 2004, p.100]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A true, if guilty pleasure. [june 2008, p.103]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A slightly muted, at times infuriatingly uneven, but ultimately rewarding collection. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their horizons have broadened. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In Anderson's own context, it's slight, awkward stuff. [Oct 2008, p.110]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The whole thing sounds effortless, and not always in a god way. [Dec 2007, p.109]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    'Welcome To The Third World' is a likeable pastiche of post-Chic funk, but tiresome country skits and Musee D'Nougart's 15 minutes of ambient fart-around are less welcome. [Oct 2008, p.110]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The shock in this collaboration is that it sounds savagely natural. [Dec. 2011, p.93]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are just enough moments of shimmering, honeyed dexterity to keep us listening. [Jul 2012, p.82]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Slick mediocrity. [Dec 2005, p.98]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Aside from a handful of instrumental snatches... Democrazy's main events are six or seven tantalising sketches. [Jan 2004, p.96]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sometimes erratic and headstrong, at others whimsical and somewhat listless, it ultimately sounds like an unsatisfying curio. [Nov 2008, p.110]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This lot recall mid-'90s crusty combos like Senser and Back To The Planet, their politics naive and hectoring, their music, frankly, pretty ghastly. [Apr 2009, p.108]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These 12 tunes pack an almighty sonic punch. [Apr 2007, p.96]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For every shot that hits the target, however, another flies into the blue. [Sep 2005, p.92]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tunes abound, performances are slick, and all 13 songs boast a hook or two. [Jan 2018, p.88]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tired and contrived-sounding.... Baptism? Craptism, more like. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Scream has balls, Cornell vacating his comfort zone with admirable readiness. [Apr 2009, p.98]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's nothing here to advance the small-scale acclaim gathered by their debut. [Aug 2009, p.95]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occasionally they stumble, as on the clunky 'Warboys.' But with Rogers imperious, Queen's second coming is vindicated. [Oct 2008, p.100]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fans of relentless riffing may be sated, anyone else will be left feeling a little awkward. [Dec 2005, p.98]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A square-jawed, piano-based, falsetto-flecked collection of sediment sentiment. [Oct 2008, p.109]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mostly you're left with the sensation that the quickie you so hotly anticipated wasn't what you were looking for after all. [Sep 2003, p.104]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A second rate version of the original. [Sep 2005, p.102]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Could pass for a load of Stone Temple Pilots B-sides. [Sep 2006, p.106]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sadly sterile...
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Testify really doesn't work. [Dec 2002, p.122]
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Viva Brother lack much of Blur's charming artyness and all of the Gallaghers' battering rock immensity and football terrace touch. [Sept. 2011, p. 96]
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    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a pleasant place to hang out, though it occasionally feels like you're listening to a piece of fake history, a one-for-ourselves indulgence by a big band whose major work you've not heard. [Nov 2001]
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    • 60 Critic Score
    His tried and trusted writing formula sometimes irritate--about being mistaken for Willie Nelson, about an amateur-sung cover version of Heaven that scored 16 million YouTube hits--are winningly self-effacing and chucklesome. [Dec 2010, p.96
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are his silkiest arrangements yet, but shadowy undercurrents ensure the tension never lets up. [Jun 2011, p.104]
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    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His albums are populated by characters, tall tales and true stories sung in that plain-dealing half-spoken voice that can bring to mind Tom Petty. ... Here we have a paean to Johnny Thunders. ... And to John The Baptist's son. ... And three separate songs about presidents. [Sep 2020, p.88]
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